Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:43:15 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>,
        Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>, Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: add pin biasing and drive mode to gpiolib
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> Then of course the GPIO driver can in turn call the padmux
> subsystem to request its pins or fail/bail out if they are taken.

Yes that makes a lot more sense. It preserves the abstraction in the
simple cases but handles the complex stuff right.

Alan
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